Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 10 - Tax Appeals Commission
Chapter 14 - Management of Tax Appeals

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Any Deputies who wish to come in for a second round of questions, should use their hand signal and we will try to accommodate everyone.

Ms Maney is very welcome and I thank her for the information she has supplied. I listened to the details she outlined. It was on 4 August that she got into the office and started to get things moving. Obviously, it has been a difficult year.

Spending money is easy. Trying to gather the money that is owed is hard, but trying to reach an agreement with somebody or reach a figure for what is owed can be even more difficult, so it can be a challenging job. With regard to some of the information Ms Maney supplied, the top ten largest appeals are in respect of corporation tax. That is interesting. Could she expand a little on that? As regards the top 20, according to the figures given in the brief the value of that unsettled tax is €3 billion. What really stands out is that the top five is €2.8 billion. Perhaps she could tell us if that €2.8 billion would be owed mainly by multinational companies or Irish-based, Irish-registered companies.

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